2024/25 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

MUS1241 Collaborative Performance

20 creditsClass Size: 100

Module manager: Matt Pritchard
Email: m.pritchard1@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

This module supports the development of collaborative learning skills, confidence, and understanding of music’s relationship to your wellbeing. You’ll participate in a performance ensemble, not necessarily on your first instrument/voice, cultivating skills necessary for successful group working such as preparation, professionalism, flexibility and communication. Through group performance, you’ll also engage questions of personal and group responsibility and opportunity, and the ethics of collaborative activity. Module assessment is via reflective report considering these skills and attributes.

Objectives

The module is based around rehearsal and performance as part of an ensemble, which forms the basis for consistent and appropriate reflection on this experience including aspects such as the cultural and ethical contexts of students’ performances, the relationship of these to their identity, confidence and working practice as musicians, and their own responsibilities as collaborative learners and performers.

Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Discuss music in appropriate practical, cultural, global and ethical contexts;
2. Recognize connections between theory and practice of collaborative performance and pedagogy;

Skills learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
3. Independently locate, validate, and reference work on collaborative performance and pedagogy;
4. Reflect on their own learning, achievement, and personal/professional development;
5. Demonstrate competence in appropriate modes of reflective communication;
6. Collaborate with others in a group performance setting.

Syllabus

Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lectures	2	2.00	4.00
seminars	2	2.00	4.00
Practicals	16	2.00	32.00
Private study hours			160.00
Total Contact hours			40.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Progress toward the submission of the students’ final reflective report will be through a weekly reflective diary, whose entries will be made online in either written or voice-note form (equating roughly to 300 words or 2mins). Formative feedback is provided by the module leader on two of these entries, usually from around weeks 5 and 8. There will be further opportunities to provide formative feedback on students’ oral understanding of the reflective process and their notes and drafts for the reflective report in the two 2-hour seminars. Students will also receive feedback in rehearsals from tutors who are leading or coaching the ensembles, helping to situate and guide their reflection.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Assignment	Coursework: Reflective Log	100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

The reflective log will be a single piece of reflective writing or edited piece of audio equivalent to 2000 words in length or 12-15 minutes. It will draw on formative diary entries submitted online on a weekly basis, and will also incorporate reference to selected published sources on collaborative performance and collaborative learning found by students themselves. Resits will also be in the form of a reflective log. This will make reference to either the original rehearsals and performance for the ensemble, if the student attended these, or (in cases of non-attendance) to another experience of collaborative performance in the run-up to the resit.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 13/05/2024

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